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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (145422)	8/29/2014 8:49:15 PM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149319

<i expect a whole lot from mine. It built Hoover Dam, won WW2< It won WW2? Really? Did they teach you that at the University? The US was part of a Coalition of nations that defeated Germany. A German friend of mine is amused when the US has these grand ceremony's on the beaches of Normandy, and point to the Battle of Arracourt in September of 1944, where US and British forces defeated (2), TWO, German brigades, as the defining point of the downfall of Germany.. Few point to the fact that the Russian forces defeated not less than (13) THIRTEEN German brigades on the Eastern Front. Reports show total Russian casualties in World War 2 at nearly 30 million. That's Million with a M. The Chinese lost between 10MM to 20MM The Battle of Berlin, which took place some 9 months AFTER the Battle of Arracourt is viewed as the final major offensive of WW2 as the Soviets, and Soviets alone encircled and captured Berlin. While the Battle of Berlin raged, Hitler committed suicide. The US had 420,000 casualties. So please continue on your story on how the US won WW2... Please, Please do....

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (145422)	8/29/2014 9:32:53 PM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149319

<discovered the AIDs virus< On a spring day in 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo stood before a press conference at the National Cancer Institute to announce that he had discovered the virus that causes AIDS. What he neglected to mention was that Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris had also identified what turned out to be the same virus. The two institutes had previously shared samples; they agreed to publish together and even make a joint announcement. But when the press got wind of the news, the NCI felt compelled to proceed without the French. "If I could relive those days, I wish they had been at the press conference," says Gallo today. "I was a little swept away." It took three years--and the intercession of the French and U.S. Presidents--to smooth the ruffled scientific feathers and work out a settlement in which both researchers call themselves co-discoverers. "It could have happened differently," says Montagnier. "But everybody has their personality." As the French would say...... Je pense que vous regardez trop la télévision

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (145422)	8/29/2014 10:06:07 PM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149319

"went to the moon" The news doesn't get much better here.. Uh.. I hate to be the bearer of bad news.. but, uh!! The Russians performed a "moon landing" on the moon first. The Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission went to the moon on 13 September, 1959, nearly a decade before the US went to the moon. Most of our rocket technology came from...... Russians that the US brought to the US after WW2. The Russians still supply Rocket Engines for our Atlas Rockets that launch the bulk of our Heavy Military Satellites. The Russians were methodical for "Keep it Simple Stupid" While the US developed complex and costly launch control systems that used expensive technology to rotate or "roll the rocket" during lift off to achieve the desired launch azimuth. The Soviets simply built a mechanical turn-turn table which could be cranked to spin the rocket on the pad so that the correct azimuth could be achieved without all the high tech complexity. If you listen to a Space Shuttle launch, you will here the narrator say "Go for Roll" shortly after the craft clears the tower. If you could simply spin the spacecraft on the pad, you greatly simplify the geometry and the flight systems. And it is still being used today to deliver Cosmonauts, and US, and other astronauts to the International Space Station with incredible reliability. As a matter of fact, it is currently the only "human rated" launch vehicle in the world, even though it is still based on the first Soyuz rocket which first flew in 1966. Here is a great video showing the process as it still exists today. youtube.com Check out those launch control system @ 2:17